Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability. – Ronald Fisher
I’d not really ever expected to play anything like ‘Hamlet.’ I hadn’t seen myself as a natural Hamlet, whatever a natural Hamlet is, and I quickly realised there is no such thing. – Rory Kinnear
For me, the level at which natural selection causes the phenomenon of adaptation is the level of the replicator – the gene. – Richard Dawkins
Many mainstream winemakers use indigenous yeasts rather than commercially grown ones to ferment their grapes – precisely what natural winemakers advocate. – Roger Morris
As Darwin himself was at pains to point out, natural selection is all about differential survival within species, not between them. – Richard Dawkins
Thus the genetic basis to the origin of bird species is to be sought in the inheritance of adult traits that are subject to natural and sexual selection. – Peter R. Grant
We access virtually every producing basin, whether for natural gas or crude oil, in the U.S. and Canada. – Richard Kinder
People are at their best when they can be natural. And that’s the hardest thing as a photographer. – Platon
Being used to scientific terminology and theory it was always natural for me to push this stuff into songs. – Peter Hammill
To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals. – Octavio Paz
If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur. – Rudy Rucker
Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural. – Ralph Waldo Emerson